3D Studio Max 3.0 R3 Benchmark, Continued

The undisputed winner in the Rasterization category is Quadro2 Pro from NVIDIA, which reached a whopping 112 fps on the Athlon 1.2 GHz platform. This is not surprising, as the Quadro2 Pro shows a texture fill rate that is ten times higher than that of its counterpart.

The scenes of Geom2.MAX uses up to 200,000 polygons. They contain a good blend of connected as well as separate objects and are therefore an excellent test of graphics card T&L-capabilities. The FireGL2 by Diamond takes the lead, even though its theoretical polygon fill rate is supposed to be slightly lower than that of the Quadro2 Pro.